arie croituro gmu - location intelligence
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Geospatial Intelligence @ Mason 5.2013
Harvesting Intelligence from Social Media Through GeoSocial Analysis
Arie Croitoru, Anthony StefanidisAndrew Crooks, Jacek Radzikowski
Center for Geospatial IntelligenceGeorge Mason University
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Outline
• Social media and geospatial intelligence
• GeoSocial analysis
• Sample Applications to demonstrate capabilities and challenges
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Aerial imagery: Late 19th century
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Aerial imagery: Pre World War I(Dr. Julius Neubronner)
Image source: Wikipedia; this work is in the public domain in the United States
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_pigeons_with_cameras.jpg)
Image source: Wikimedia; this work is in the public domain in the United States
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julius_Neubronner_with_pigeon_and_camera_1914_cropped.jpg
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Aerial imagery: World War I
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The Rise of Photo Reconnaissance (1938)
“The nation with the best photo reconnaissance will win the war”
General Werner Von Fritsch
German General Chief of Staff (1938)
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Aerial imagery: World War 2
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Aerial imagery: The Cold War (1954-1974)
CC, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/U2_Camera.JPG/662px-U2_Camera.JPG
Image Credit: NASA/JPL
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From Aerial to Satellite Imagery
Source: NASA – Public Domain – taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Corona Program• 1st photo reconnaissance
satellite in the world
• 1st mid-air recovery of a vehicle returning from space
• 1st stereo-optical data from space
• 1st multiple reentry vehicles from space
• 1st reconnaissance program to fly 100 missions
Image source: http://www.nro.gov/history/csnr/corona/
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Imaging from Space Today
Image source: Public Domain, created by NASA
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Image source: Earth Imaging Journal - http://eijournal.com/2011/geoeye-2-design-phase-ahead-of-schedule Image courtesy of GeoEye/Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.
Image source: WIRED magazine, http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/08/google-launches-2/
Imaging from Space Today
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(Source: DigitalGlobe 2009)
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Image source: CC – Wikimedia File:Fukushima I by Digital Globe crop.jpg|
Fukushima I by Digital Globe crop
Image source: CC – Wikimedia "Made based on [http://w3land.mlit.go.jp/WebGIS/ National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs)], Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism".
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFukushima_I_NPP_1975.jpg
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Social Media
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Social Media and the Market
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Geospatial Intelligence @ Mason 5.2013© George Mason University© Dr. Arie Coritoru,
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Motivation: The Proliferation of Social Media
• Twitter: 400 million accounts (140 million active users) (9th most populous country in the world – above Japan)
• Facebook: 1 billion users (the world’s 3rd most populous country), and 6 billion photos uploaded monthly
• flickr: 6 billion photos (3,000 photos uploaded every minute)
• QQ has 800 million accounts
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Motivation: User-Generated Digital Content
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Social Media and Intelligence
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Reporting Events
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Building Communities
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A New Communication Tool
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A New Battlefield
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Social Media Contant and
GeoSocial Analysis
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Geolocation Information
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Social Media Content: The Message
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Social Media Content: Social Networks
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A GeoSocial Approach
GeoSocial data mining:
A unique combination of geospatial, social network, and content analysis, to understand the human landscape and gain situational awareness.
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A GeoSocial Approach: An Example
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Opportunities and Challenges
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Test Case: Mineral, VA Earthquake (Summer ‘11)
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Event Responses in Twitterdom
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Impact Area Assessment: People as Sensors
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Test Case: Occupy Brooklyn Bridge (Winter ‘11)
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Validation Test Case: OWS Day of Action (11/17/11)
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GeoSocial Clustering (Test case: Occupy Wall Street, 11/17/11)
Identifying keywords:
Understanding what are the defining
keywords for evolving events.
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Social Network Analysis
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The Interplay of Cyber and PhysicalHybrid
Communities:
Where cyber meets spatial
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Geography Redefined: Case Study Syria
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Geography Redefined: Case Study Syria
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Geography Redefined: Case Study Syria
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Geography Redefined: Case Study Syria
A new map of Syria as a polycentric state.
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Geography Redefined: Case Study Syria
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Test Case: Boston Marathon Bombing
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Test Case: Boston Marathon Bombing (cont.)
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Test Case: Boston Marathon Bombing (cont.)
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Test Case: Boston Marathon Bombing (cont.)
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Test Case: Hurricane Sandy
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GeoSocial Gauge: A Sample Architecture
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GeoSocial Gauge: Front End
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Outlook
• Authoritative vs. open-source: a changing balance
• Social Media: Opportunities and challenges
• From post-event response to predictive analysis
• GeoSocial Analysis: A new type of analysis for a new type of data and events
• Validation
• Improving signal-to-noise
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Contact Info
Dr. Arie Croitoru
Center for Geospatial IntelligenceGeorge Mason University
Web: http://geosocial.gmu.eduhttp://cgeoint.gmu.edu
Twitter: @GeoSocialMason
email: [email protected]